Syria, the Iraq war and other trouble spots were hot-button issues in a panel that included Senator John McCain, the Republican from Arizona, and Aleksei K. Pushkov, the head of Russia’s parliamentary Foreign Affairs Committee.

May 18, 2011, Wednesday

LOS ANGELES - Representative Jane Harman, Democrat of California, is leaving Congress to become president of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, party officials said on Monday.Her seat, in a Democratic-leaning district of Los...

Representative Jane Harman, Democrat of California, who former officials said was overheard on government wiretaps discussing leniency for two pro-Israel lobbyists, is not the subject of a criminal investigation, according to a Justice Department...